Roderick on the Line

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00:00:17 ◼   ► they ask paul and storm to help me say [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► hi to john good morning John what's [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► going on how are things with you find [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► out about John Roderick ha [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► hello [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► I John the in mint John John John no big [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► bad John is kool maze and say one reason [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► Golan and thank-yous old and sick colon [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► to thank you so praising the coordinates [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► the ninth useful [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► alright great umpire a button-up think [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► that oh you know what fuck you [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► oh god my head all day that's all it [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► takes and he got that you got dr. worm [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► you gotta listen to what a real doctor [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► but is anything he's getting better on [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► the drums you can handle criticism [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► oh man also you know another one from [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► man it's so loud in here oh yeah it's [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► tough to get stuck in your head another [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► one for me last week to me three days to [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► get rid of [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► listen to what the man set 0 which has [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► so many hooks [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► well the thing is he said no no no do [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► you know what soprano sax I'll allow it [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► I get in so many arguments about that [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► era of paul mccartney that now that song [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► is unimpeachably great absolutely [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► wonderful two hundred percent wonderful [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► the absolutely the best completely [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► conjures the seventies for me makes me [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► feel like a kid again [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► yep nonsensical oh you're not [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► communicate any cogent thought I think [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► he stopped doing a second pass on lyrics [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► I mean it's pure music absolutely pure [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► right music means nothing makes yellow [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► lyrics look like chalk and if this [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► ever-changing well in which we live in [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► no makes you [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► that's terrible nothing works when I was [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► little I thought he was I thought he was [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► just like I just high on prepositions I [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► thought he said in this ever-changing [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► world in which we live in [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► yeah I thought he said that to ya but [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► but even though he's not saying that [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► it's just as bad [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► yeah no man he had they had a run are so [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► good so good the you but it requires [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► that I think that music is supposed to [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► do a different thing than it then I [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► think it is supposed to do what show is [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► it's not like Buddhism oh it really is [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► that really is [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► did I tell you you speaking of which I [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► got ice when i arrived at the office [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► today there was a pop-up box waiting for [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► me [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► have you heard of your on my other show [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► haha i do is sort of unboxing on bottom [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► unboxing segment yeah yeah I think [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► you're a I think I think I think your [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► chemistry have enough period right now [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► yeah because you you announced your [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► office address yeah it was like 123 [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► make-believe street no down USA [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► yeah that's right [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► one-two-three-four-five [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► one-two-three-four-five Seattle Seattle [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► Street Hotel street seattle town [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► us-american 123 trap Street battle [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► America so you announced on your other [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► program which I which I do listen to you [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► had announced that you want people to [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► send you anything that's not dead with [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► an asterisk right and so people are [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► doing that now [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► yeah I said anybody that's a maker of [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► things that's making stuff and they [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► won't get a crucifix made a pube and [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► they will have they want me to test it [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► out right there like I'm making this you [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► know making these leather watch bands or [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► i'm making this you know this feathered [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► headdress or I'm making you know this [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► these strange Mormon undergarments and [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► I'm just you know I just want to get it [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► out there in the world i'm just not sure [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► how to do that [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► send it to me send it to me and i will [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► test that shit out for you and I'll and [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► I'll talk about it on my program and [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► they had the address here are my program [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► the address here 815 Seattle boulevard [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► good seattle washington [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► united 898 134 office 332 intend to say [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► that's AI just send me your stuff I know [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► you're working on things and you're [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► building banjos out there i know you are [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► a yeah you're working with goods you [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► working with your making some artisanal [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► t a banjo would be awesome [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► yeah feathered headdress my goodness i [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► could see where the feather headdress do [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► you remember a fan of ours came up to us [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► a couple of years ago and I may not [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► handed us two banjos made out of cigar [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► boxes oh yeah that was pretty sweet yeah [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► I still got one of those i still play [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► all the time I tuned it to a kind of [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► like you know raga tuning and I sit on [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► I sit on the steps i play my daughter to [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► sleep with this cigar box banjo that's a [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► horrifying vision my meltdown [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► yeah i just dropped to my ukulele guitar [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► and I never looked back [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► Oh see dr. from an 80 g sounds very very [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► metal a power now you can play prison [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► colon and something pleasing cold an [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► instant queues alright and it's so loud [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► in here i'm gonna get a good [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► thanksgiving you know it's been a year [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► since I've done by they might be giants [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► presentation ready yeah don't get [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► anything going down down down down [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► that's it I'm done do you want to know a [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► funny thing i would love to know if [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► anything just don't give out any more [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► personal information so i just mention [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► your daughter [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► hi just looked under the keyboard of my [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► computer and there's an envelope [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► oh this is how it starts this is it this [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► is what you've been waiting for [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► we'll see and I don't understand how [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► this would have happened it's posted the [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► third of november so that's that's a [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► while back [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► yeah and it's from waltham massachusetts [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► it's a purple envelope [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► it's addressed to me at 815 Seattle [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► boulevard office number 32 [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► I was in waltham massachusetts not so [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► long ago ms the home of the the email [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► marketing company constant contact [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► really constant contact they make great [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► tell you they do they do it people are [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► constantly contacting them on it [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► yeah junkie so let me talk there waltham [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► massachusetts probably named after [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► waltham abbey a town north of london [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► england LOL Londontown England waltham [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► abbey being an abbey ok [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► purple purple entirely purple envelope [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► verbal envelope was that culturally [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► significant John and sometimes around [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► the it's not ping-pong to say chinese [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► new year you give out a red envelope [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► that's gotta get you don't cut your hair [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► don't sweep the house right bad luck [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► OIC was a purple envelope me well i [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► think in waltham massachusetts this and [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► a purple envelope this particular [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► envelope is the color of let's say a [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► black berry smoothie and I think [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► traditionally in the Massachusetts [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► culture a black berry smoothie colored [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► envelope means may you have many oysters [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► this year is that a harbinger or an omen [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► I think it's a harbinger okay if I got [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► if i had a letter that where they were [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► the envelope was a pretentious like if [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► it had fur me something indicated that [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► there might be some if I may say animism [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► if it was a black envelope with gold [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► foil [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► whoo-hoo right yes you're gonna get [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► invited to a witch's mass or [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► international government organization [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► you've never heard of [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► hello I would open that shit right away [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► and then maybe there would be a curse or [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► maybe I would be a member of a secret [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► institution [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► I think you would have you know what has [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► a clue we have a grind amounts to an [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► elaborate puzzle right exactly i would [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► have to wait too long hope it hasn't [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► expired everything like an offer code [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► and have to go on an adventure what this [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► is the thing I'm not sure whether I am [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► obligated to not open these packages [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► because it's a bit sad because it's a [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► bit on my other show or whether whether [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► every time I walk into my office I just [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► unbox whatever it is this is your main [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► show you can do everything back [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► that's how you know that's how you know [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► it's working that's how you know it's [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► the rhetoric on the line because i don't [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► have a cough button there any can't get [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► your mp3's there on the computer 50,000 [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► 53 get three computers and then they say [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► you can listen to your song you can [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► listen to AC news first solo album [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► do you know how many replies i have [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► already gotten to that you have any idea [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► how easy that problem is too fast [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► oh so many people John listen John [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► siracusa will be tearing out his hair [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► it's so easy to fix [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► I think part of my part of the reason [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► i'm here on earth is to be a bugbear [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► literally a Dungeons and Dragons bugbear [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► to John Syracuse's half-orc yeah because [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► what you're really good internet video [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► about the creatures of Lord of the Rings [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► cgpgrey makes these videos that explain [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► complicated things and so I learned [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► about all the many creatures of lord of [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► the rings that has he ever made a video [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► explaining why those dumb Star Wars [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► movies got made [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► no but he you know he's great at is most [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► famous one if its first we got famous [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► for was explaining the difference [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► between the UK the British Isles and [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► what is that it's really good it's a [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► really good video he has a lot of [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► personality in his voice oh he's [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► terrific he really well he's just [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► finally famous he's very very gifted but [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► also he's done great ones I about the [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► history of monarchy in the UK very good [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► how you become the Pope i did not know [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► how you become a pope very interesting [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► yeah you gotta move up through the ranks [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► to become a priest [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► if you're lucky you make the cut you [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► become a you become a bishop bishop then [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► castle / are you mr. Wade sure sure and [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► eventually become one of the Cardinals [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► the Cardinals meet they vote four times [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► a day six days a week to save the day of [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► the week for praying and they put some [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► stuff in the chimney makes a white and [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► got a pope [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► yeah yes Matt nice that's a nice process [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► that's a nice it's a nice it's a nice [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► process it feels really homegrown it [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► feels very it feels very authentic and [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► that is the way that you kind of get to [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► what God is thinking you know one of [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► those videos you learned some stuff [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► here's a question for you [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► you mentioned i think a little bit on [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► the program with dan what's what do you [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► feel is your obligation or promise [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► what is your commitment in terms of when [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► people send you stuff what's gonna [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► happen he might do you write a thank-you [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► note [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► oh it's hard for me to write a thank you [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► note it's always bad [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► I gotta thank you i gotta ask somebody [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► bought me some of my amazon less time [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► any mail the next day [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► that's so good that's really good to do [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► 40th anniversary [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► monty python and the holy grail blu-ray [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► box set comes with a catapult and for [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► animals [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► good grief yeah my daughter's loving it [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► what a fantastic gift [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► yeah it's fantastic here's the thing [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► that I don't think thank you thank you [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► have to go as a because i would say [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► jared Thank You Jared thank you that was [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► a great gift [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► Monty Python box set so what is your [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► internal or external what you're feeling [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► so it sounds like part of what you're [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► offering is notes [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► yeah I'm commentary you're going to put [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► this in a cultural context which is [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► something everybody could use that's [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► right I i feel like i am going to give [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► an honest appraisal of the whole [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► experience right like here comes a box [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► if I've talked to you in advance about [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► this i have already forgotten it so i [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► have no idea what's in any box that [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► arrives at my house if I wish I had that [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► printed on the card I could just give to [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► people haha if I've talked to you about [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► this in advance i have already have [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► probably forgotten it yeah so everyone i [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► order stuff on ebay when I order stuff [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► at amazon when people tell me they're [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► gonna send me things I immediately [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► forget it and so every time I arrived [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► home and there's a box on the doorstep [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► I have no idea what it is and it's a [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► wonderful Christmas morning every time [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► so i will so i'll open the box on the [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► on-air and i will be surprised by what's [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► inside and I'll describe the whole [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► experience and then i will i will try to [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► utilize the item as best i can and then [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► explain my experience of using it now if [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► it's if i if I'm trying to use the thing [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► and it's not useful i will probably [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► describe that [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► mm but I feel like a lot of our [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► listeners are making things and they're [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► making things [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► well some of it is in the category of [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► art where it's now difficult to know how [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► to use it you can only appreciate it or [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► not appreciated [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► mm but I will you know i will use my i [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► will use all of my faculties to like a [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► praise the thing okay that's my promise [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► to you [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► okay well I you know I'm here I serve at [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► your pleasure if you want to save that [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► for your show with Dan that's fine if [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► you'd like to open it that would be [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► great to I'm very curious about the [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► envelope [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► well that's the thing it's that the [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► envelope and is more effective more [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► you've got me saying envelope now and I [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► but I normally say envelope is that [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► thing I don't know I say I say I still [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► say aunt like aunt and uncle and I get [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► corrected my daughter [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► although she says aren't where is she [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► from all she goes to yeah she goes to [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► school in San Francisco [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► well now we don't talk about to force my [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► it's my my my wife stone family because [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► they're from New England Cisse aunt on [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► like that's the thing weird [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► ya know any envelope envelope is it not [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► its envelope i guess maybe this one [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► seems like an envelope that purple first [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► was purple seconds from its from the [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► Northeast so it probably came probably [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► came as an envelope [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► what if it's something that you can talk [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► about let's let's i'm going to open the [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► jaw is that John is addressing the [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► envelope i'm using my ikea shears [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► thank you to our team sponsors this week [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► John is opening his mail here we go all [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► my goodness inside the purple envelope [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► is a yellow piece of paper and the two [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► colors contrast against one another [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► delightfully so far so good it's a [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► pretty long letter [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► oh my goodness so it's to pick know you [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► have two pages yellow pages and the [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► first sentences as promised I have no [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► recollection of receiving any promise as [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► promised please find enclosed a few [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► mementos from my recent trip overseas [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► and here it is Merlin it is a stack of [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► saudi arabian money [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► saudi arabian money and a [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► Czechoslovakian stamp not a check stamp [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► or a Slovak stamp but a Czechoslovakian [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► stamp when did when did that stop being [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► a the check place when did you change [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► the name on that [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► well it would have happened after the [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► velvet revolution of 1989 and they split [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► up in the early nineties ok for pretty [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► fast because the slow box went away [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► slovak swatted out from under that check [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► Dominion and they wanted to form what [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► ended up being a totally repressive [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► government while the checks flourished [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► in there [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► Vaclav Havel super-state of poets and [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► playwrights playwrights the slow box [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► were like now we're tired of being ruled [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► by the those damn checks and then they [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► can pay LG remember life under eugene [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► o'neill yeah they elevated a like [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► despotic former communists assholio and [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► then slovakia just was like oh damn and [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► I think they're I think they're [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► recovering now I think they're I think [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► the slovak sauron their way but they [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► think they handicap themselves for the [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► four you get i'm looking at a picture [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► here of a Saudi rai al [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► yeah that's right are ya real reality [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► and it's got its got a picture fell on [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► mhm and I keep asking myself is that the [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► best picture they had well it's a pretty [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► strange picture and I have to stay it's [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► got to be king fahd al sure uh but then [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► there's one of these four bills i have [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► where it seems like the picture is of [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► King well so i think that the the three [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► bills might be king sound and then this [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► is king fahd his son then there's a kind [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► of a kind of looks like salieri with [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► glasses [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► yeah i guess a different guy you know [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► the famous Saudi ambassador to the [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► United States we have F murray Abraham [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► yeah he's a he's a he's always been like [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► a cultural attaché [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► and.and he's a he's a very expansive [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► personality and he sort of the face of [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► Saudi longtime face of saudi arabia in [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► the United States and I think he was [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► recently recalled or or banished [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► something happened some intrigue [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► oh yes and this picture kind of looks [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► like him but it's it's not because they [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► wouldn't put him on the money i would [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► that be embarrassing [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► it's you know that's the thing about [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► those dynasties right there are so many [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► princes in saudi arabia and which one is [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► going to be the king is is like there's [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► a there's a ton of intrigue there anyway [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► so i took the letter reads on i was in [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► Saudi Arabia so it's very difficult to [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► go to Saudi Arabia i have learned you [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► can't just kill it was not simply walk [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► into Saudi Arabia know because their [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► mentality is we don't need Western [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► tourism here we have all the money in [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► the world and so why you are going to [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► come here and you're going to look ask [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► ants at our other veils and you're gonna [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► try and use your Western powers to screw [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► with us [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► outlook was only right locals only on [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► this Beach so why would we asked you to [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► come here what do you bring we don't [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► need your money so what else are you [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► bringing we don't need your culture [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► either so tell us why we should let you [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► here and very few people can pass that [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► bar i think a lot of think the people to [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► do cover like we are engineering [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► professors or we are loyal mucky-mucks [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► em anyway so this person says I was in [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► saudi arabia for one week which is [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► extraordinary for work i administer a [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► fellowship for Saudi women at MIT [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► wow that's so cool we sponsor Saudi [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► women phd's to come to MIT to conduct [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► research [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► wow that's wow video podcast for you we [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► do a podcast almost every week we can't [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► sponsor anyone [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► well but you know what write that down [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► we should have a scholarship and we can [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► change that that's right down right now [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► we need a scholarship we could sponsor [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► something I get the feeling that all of [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► the applicants would be a men in their [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► early twenties from New Zealand em but [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► we can find work for them in terms of [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► podcasts [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► Germans do and slow box of podcasts and [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► the Balkans John no okay a god that's so [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► cool [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► then what I want a neat project well [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► it's wonderful and you know i have that [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► i have that collection of money from all [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► over and I never would have thought I [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► was going to get saudi arabian money but [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► now i have some just in case really it's [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► really pretty and very complicated and [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► what's nice is that you know a lot of [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► money puts English on itself but oh IC [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► they actually have I thought I thought [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► that this money was going to have no [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► English on it was all going to be in [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► Arabic and a wonderful script but then [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► on the back it does a saudi arabian [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► monetary agency King Abdullah bin [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► Abdulaziz al-saud mhm which is an [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► awesome name to cool name [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► i have 10 rial 5c hard when he gets high [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► score on like stargate also what do you [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► play [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► alright just what you put poop you don't [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► get four letters [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► oh you put a big dik Assad has done it [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► again a damn it damn it he can get all [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► the mutants is right at the top but i [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► don't so I haven't read deeply enough [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► into the letter to know what the [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► significance of the Czechoslovakian [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► stamp is but I but i'm very excited by [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► um can I can make a suggestion [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► yeah see I like the idea that you guys [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► talked about this i know they do this on [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► on RT podcast like they always ask [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► people to say where they're from on the [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► TV podcast always have to see what your [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► area code is I think two things would be [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► helpful [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► where is that person from ya MIP and is [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► it ok to read on the air [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► Oh may I read your letter on the right I [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► think we should just say he says to me [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► I'm gonna read on the air so don't make [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► it weird [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► ok that's right if you're going to if [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► you sent me a weird letter i'm gonna [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► read on the air anyway I did this person [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► has not as good expressly allowed that [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► they can that I can read this on the air [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► and frankly I don't even know if they [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► are podcast listener they may have [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► contacted me separately and said [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► I would like to send you something and I [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► said yeah by all means send it to be [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► awkward conversations by the Keurig [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► machine at MIT time said it to me at 815 [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► Seattle boulevard a town USA 12345 etude [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► to office 322 which I so yeah but you [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► know I have a lot of a lot of fans and [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► friends at MIT sure and sent us this is [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► I mean of course right they're working [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► they're working for DARPA but they're [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► really working for me anyway so that's [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► wonderful that's that that that made my [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► morning [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► that's a nice gift yeah and then that [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► did feel that felt appropriately [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► connected to this program [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► uh-huh and then the box whatever is in [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► the wait a minute now the boxes from [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► amazon prime that's not something [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► somebody made oh they just could be a [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► straight-up reading maybe dildo [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► let me see you save it for Dan shaken [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► but I don't want I don't take your [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► material for Dan this doesn't sound like [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► a dildo [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► what's your sense giving you hate kid [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► you won't give another shake the think [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► it's a book or possibly a blu-ray box [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► set it would be a very light weight [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► dildo and I think one of the criteria of [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► the dildo is that have a little heft [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► should have a little should have good [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► hand feel ya you don't want you don't [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► want to do that's like looking at you [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► know like this doesn't approximate [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► anything [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► well I think if there's anything you [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► don't want a dildo it sits in [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► substantial right regardless of the size [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► i mean i think it should it should have [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► some gravitas [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► yeah right i mean a dildo ultimately [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► like a light dildo it's it's like the [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► field roast of penises [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► what is it was filled with jon is [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► Atlanta jager field roast is a real [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► gross is a product made here in [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► Washington made here in seattle [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► washington which is a meat substitute so [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► in some Seattle restaurants you can get [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► a field roast meatloaf or field roast [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► turkey dinner and it's just a [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► combination of vegetables formed into [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► the shape of a look at westfield roast a [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► big potato [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► yeah and it's a it's delightful it's not [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► especially like [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► meet but it is something that you can [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► eat instead of meat and get in and [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► mexican chipotle that's right and so [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► when I think of a dildo [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► I mean a lot of dildos are our [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► exaggeratedly other they're made of [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► glass they seem like they're somebody's [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► making bongs and then a bong failed and [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► they were like I think about building [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► design starts a bomb i think probably [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► someone's making glass bombs and the [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► ones that don't really like that they [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► don't they're not filled with bong life [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► collapse upon themselves or their tube [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► honky they're just like right and they [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► move that over to a separate place of [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► the Senate assembly line and there's [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► somebody turning those shape and bones [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► into dildos that is smart operationally [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► that is super smart but you don't want a [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► car by your dildo unless that's your [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► well who doesn't exactly mean although [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► if you could put a carbon a dildo and [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► then just like Paul people love [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► marijuana John and they they like doing [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► stuff with dildos I think there could be [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► an opportunity in the market here but [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► here's what about your friend mitc it's [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► just something in the grand for what [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► people are gonna listen to this program [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► and they're going to change the way they [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► are making build bombs and another note [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► we need a grant to go to a separate [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► business it's give scholarships get [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► grants I do i do feel like dildos are [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► are the field roast of of water bongs [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► who but you know what i mean like it's [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► up as a it's a meat substitute yeah and [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► so it has to approximate some of the [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► qualities of the original item you can [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► also get in fun colors a lot like a bomb [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► well and probably just buy yourself a [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► purple dildo that's the thing you can [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► get penises in a lot of colors [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► that's true Hakuna Matata and said I'll [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► say alright I'm opening this box okay [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► once again thank you very much to our to [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► sponsor this week John is open his dildo [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► box [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► alright so it's from amazon prime or [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► second sponsor thank you [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► well it's full of little little bags LOL [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► airbags airbag sure is [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► the first thing we have to do the bags [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► inside is a an actual wrapped box [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► oh is it the blue wrapping paper yeah [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► it's a gift-wrapped box [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► somebody paid extra to have that rap for [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► you that nice and that yeah they did [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► visit dildo shaped at the bottom [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► no it's just a square box at the bottom [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► of the of the amazon box is a is a like [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► a different color yellow [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► I'd say this one is orange an envelope [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► that says keep your gift to surprise [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► that's the gift receipt unwrap your [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► present before opening this envelope so [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► if I open this envelope it will tell me [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► with the gift is you don't do that and [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► also if you're going to use the dildo [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► you know you want to really clean that [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► up for you send it back [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► oh right term here gentlemen I don't [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► know will they take that back i think [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► they have to okay that's the Magna Carta [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► so now here I'm back to have to make [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► another conundrum [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► yeah because there's a little there's a [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► little a climate gift card [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► yeah happy note on the top and it's [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► decorated with snowflakes which means [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► that this is a Christmas present right i [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► think you could open the flap egift card [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► and i'll give you guidance [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► all right here we go it's not [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► handwritten because it was done by [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► others like one crummy little text box [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► you feel that it always gets weird the [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► line breaks are weird and amazon should [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► really fix that [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► alright here we go hi John big fan of [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► all the great shows [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► nice nice reference here is something [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► that works great for refreshing and [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► cleaning guitar strings huh i first read [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► about it here [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► HTTP colon forward slash forward slash [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► bitd ly /a one capital m m capital D I x [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► ! that's aye-aye captain slow k psych [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► capital m capital and capital D [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► lowercase I uppercase X I think it's [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► luke numeral one md and then unclear [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► whether it's an iron L say amazon's [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► gotta get on this thing is IX I frankly [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► anyway from Dmitri battery in ski what a [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► great name up and it may even be Perry [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► in ski-e-o perience Kelly no see this i [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► can't read the Amazons and writing this [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► is terrible [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► alright so this is a guitar string [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► refresher huh in the box i will now have [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► given it away and open [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► yeah from Dmitri like you get that you [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► want to get into r3 sponsors this week [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► amazon prime go oh it's the sticker has [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► kind of become amazing don't appear on [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► more podcast lists the stick [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► well fuck is the AV club for us the [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► sticker is sort of defaced the box which [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► is a pigment really bothers me when I [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► don't know tram is on today no i want to [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► but if you're sending me a box i wanted [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► to be a reusable box i don't want your [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► sticker dunk [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► yes Daddy face the box no its you know [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► they think about boxes like well once [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► the box get there and it gets opened its [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► going right in the recycling it's like [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► not necessarily a hoe not my house on [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► right now we'll talk about boxes right [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► you got a plan so you know i'm just [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► taking the stick them off the box and [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► now you're like a child just hearing [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► into a box of Lucky Charms that's just [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► sad [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► I'm not going to be able to open the box [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► until I get this stick them off and uh [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► huh [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► alright i can open it what John is it is [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► it this is our dice think what is it [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► well I haven't opened it yet okay all [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► right here we go [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► opening the box it's really packaged in [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► a way that indicates someone in a [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► warehouse really cared whose paper there [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► we go [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► unwrapping it it is a can a little can [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► that seems like it would be a seems like [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► the kind of kin that you would use to [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► wax your cross-country skis is aerosol [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► manual it's manual ok it's like yeah [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► it's a manual can old-fashioned [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► cross-country ski wax and it's called [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► the zenith Tibet almond stick and eat [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► and it's and then the label says it's [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► all so new it's not used [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► that's nice all I've seen this stuff [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► oh yeah uses on tables yeah yeah yeahs [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► zenith Tibet almond stick wipeout [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► furniture and flooring quick as a wink [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► quick as a wink and and he is saying it [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► refreshes guitar strings [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► I don't know I putting stuff on guitar [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► strings depression and I don't know [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► inside the little can is a further piece [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► of rapper [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► oh wow strong smelling it has a very [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► citrusy smell this smell more like [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► almonds or Tibet I've never been to [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► Tibet okay it smells like it would work [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► also as a breath freshener [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► yeah well thank you Dimitri for that [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► wonderful gift i will try to put the [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► floor wax on my guitar and see else all [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► experiment with a with a guitar I don't [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► care about that much huh [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► and if it works if it likes licks up my [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► strings and refreshes them i will be [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► very grateful to you [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► yeah thanks to meet you this would [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► really be a good segment for your show [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► with Dan haha we are had our annual go [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► ahead [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► no I was I've been wondering lately how [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► come we're not on more like best podcast [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► list is keep seeing these things best [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► pilot at the 50 best podcast i don't i [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► don't strictly want to be and yet i'm a [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► little surprised that we're not because [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► we were very important program [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► alright and who what the hell are all [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► these other programs we want I don't [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► want a bunch of johnny-come-lately [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► also-rans just showing up because they [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► thought on a website i think the people [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► the people who need to find this will [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► find is provided that you people are [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► telling them repair we had a meeting [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► where listeners yeah it's always our [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► everything always comes back to [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► listeners and so we had our annual [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► carnival this weekend I just the [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► phenomenon toss out and see if I'm alone [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► in this family who's we [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► we are the school my wife is the [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► co-chair of the carnival she put an [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► extraordinary amount of work into having [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► a carnival they raised a lot of money [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► was really great so I was on a cleanup [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► crew and part of my job was breaking [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► down boxes like people bring stuff in a [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► box yeah like donations baked goods [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► whatnot and then one of my Jobs was to [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► break down the boxes and put them in [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► recycling which i happen to love and I [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► find very meditative but i also use it [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► at home it's always an opportunity for [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► me to look for what i will call a good [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► box [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► oh yes you feeling about good boxes oh I [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► have a whole what do you think I keep [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► this office for yeah it's just for [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► Ferrand boxes that I'm like that's a [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► good box [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► I nest them I I very meditative it's [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► almost like Buddhism I meditatively will [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► nest them like Russian dolls to get a [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► good box inside of a larger good box [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► because i love a good box sometimes you [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► come across a regular amazon boxing [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► that's pretty box [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► yeah sometimes maybe something came from [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► costco maybe something's gotta wax [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► coating on it but something that you [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► could actually put like 250 wet swimsuit [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► sin and it wouldn't think oh that's a [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► good that's a good box you know who does [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► not love good boxes my wife see because [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► I'm a collector of good box they don't [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► understand I don't know what there's [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► times when I think it might be a guy [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► thing i'm not sure and I don't want to [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► stipulate that but you you get that [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► feeling I got some really good boxes [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► right here I keep the sum I breaking [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► down and take him outside but then I [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► like a good box because there's going to [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► be a time when you need a good box and [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► if you can use anything more than once I [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► think you're on the right side of [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► history [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► I get into this argument all the time [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► primarily with my mother and other [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► people that I share a living space with [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► her like can we get some of these boxes [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► out of here [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► they say it so simply like it's just [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► like oh hey let's go to the refrigerator [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► and sink we threw out half your produce [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► it like like this one is for its a [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► refrigerator we both agree right that [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► there are too many boxes in here so we [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► both agreed that it's time to get rid of [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► some of these and I'm like wait a minute [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► no no these aren't these are the so [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► clearly those are the boxes that are [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► headed out to the recycling these are [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► the boxes that are organized and hence [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► no they aren't [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► we're not going to get some of these [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► boxes out of here these are employees [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► are important boxes they're like what is [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► anything in them [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► not yet is my god what a question what [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► good what good are they [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► what good are they that's like only [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► keeping the pretty hundred-dollar bills [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► haha yes it's like you know the thing is [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► like yes I mean I'm not ed they don't [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► keep every box like that's not tenable [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► like if something if it's like a generic [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► oddly shaped box of electronics came and [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► I'm more than happy to take that out to [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► the curb right to the curb right to the [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► car but if you got it you got it talk [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► about head [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► p hi gage box that really flaps close [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► right up you know a nice square box [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► particularly a box that can hold an 11 x [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► 17 piece of paper gosh there's so many [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► things you could do with that now write [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► a nice big legal sized piece of paper [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► box but also i have a so I also will [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► pull over to the side of the road [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► anytime I see a like an old road case [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► like a plywood road case that was maybe [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► used to carry a surveying implement man [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► or some kind of you know a lot of them [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► will have shaped foam inside where there [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► was a telescope or there was some kind [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► of like router and that's that's [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► practically equipment it's fucking [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► equipment and these boxes are a lot of [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► them really old they have a tremendous [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► like I i hate to use the word patina I [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► don't normally use that in in in the [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► with regard to boxes [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► yeah well I regard to anything i'm going [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► to talk about somethings patina come on [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► yeah but but they are beautifully Warren [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► and they have heavy great gauge latches [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► and I'll take those home I'll across [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► three lanes of traffic to pick one of [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► those up off the street that's all i can [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► do although gonna take my kid up from [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► school every day and you know you see a [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► lot of trash on the red it's it's all I [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► can do not to go pick that up because i [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► know i'm gonna bring it home and then [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► i'm going to get grief about that [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► yeah and then it's like what is that [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► piece of junk and it's a piece of junk [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► what what happens if we need to carry a [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► like a surveillance implement you know [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► what I i think part of it is you know I [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► i did I once sat down as I often do in [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► Microsoft Excel to try and figure out [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► how many times I moved over a certain [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► period of time I just gotta I just had [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► to pick a mental picture of you sitting [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► down within Microsoft Excel it was so [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► beautiful it was that it was just like [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► the bread that scene intron where you [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► just can't [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► yeah and all the sudden I love Microsoft [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► Excel i find it very very absorbing but [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► i will try to figure out how many times [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► I move because you are all trying to get [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► at is that I think that part of the [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► impetus for this is if you move enough [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► you learn some things and like if you're [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► like in college it's 11 a lot of books [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► you know what you learned a lot of books [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► you don't put you don't get a giant box [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► of books there's a certain size i'm [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► gonna say roughly the size of milk crate [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► that's really good for for carrying [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► books around sushi Percy small yes [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► presents an excusable that's right so if [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► you put a bit put too many boxes if you [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► have a big box and you put too many [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► books in it you can't carry the box know [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► people don't understand this you haven't [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► moved a lot so I think in the back of my [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► mind corner of my eye I am always [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► looking out I don't intend to moving i'm [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► going to move but at the same time I [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► still I can't stop saying it like it's [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► it's you know it's just it's like seeing [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► an attractive person or a quarter like [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► you can't pick it up you know you're [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► looking for a book box yeah for me I [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► have a lot of as you know mementos [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► uh-huh and I need memento boxes boxes [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► that are just the right size for like [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► photographs and little notes that people [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► have left me and Saudi Arabian currency [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► and Czechoslovakia and stamps and so the [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► Box doesn't have to be big but it does [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► have to be pleasing yeah you don't want [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► to put your mementos in a box that isn't [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► pleased him [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► yeah i totally agree and i bought boxes [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► like I there are times when I think well [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► I gotta get my stuff put together so get [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► a lot of these where they called bankers [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► boxes [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► tell me about a banker's box now you [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► know it's cheating [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► you know it's like buying bitcoins that [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► mining it like algo SE amazon send me [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► like a multipack of these folded up [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► boxes you know bankers box when you see [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► it like when somebody gets fired the [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► security guard walks amount to carry [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► that box with the handles [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah it comes with a nice lid [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► it's real nice and i found some of these [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► recently but they were smaller you can [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► get them in different sizes there that's [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► a real good sized box for all kinds of [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► boxing but i would prefer and say what's [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► nice about it as with books it's nice to [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► have boxes of the same size when you're [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► moving that are labeled clearly IC IC [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► but but I don't know man I think it's an [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► affliction [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► well here's this labeling that you just [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► said here's the thing that we're my mom [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► and I differ my mom will write in black [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► marker indelible ink marker right on the [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► surface of a thing she will write what [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► she's using the thing to store right [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► shield but but directly [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► on the box directly on the box all right [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► on the box like yeah mementos and [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► sometimes she'll buy bags show you buy [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► things at the thrift store there like a [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► makeup bag or pencil bag small bags and [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► she'll write in indelible marker right [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► on the bag [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► oh that makes me uncomfortable pens oh [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► no permanent marker [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► yeah or drill bits right on the outside [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► of a of a bag that had formerly housed [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► some mac cosmetics and it drives me to [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► distraction [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► ya know right right on the thing because [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► then i cannot repurpose it i cannot [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► repurpose the thing if it and you know [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► and I'm sure their listeners that are [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► like just put up just put a label / just [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► put a sticker over it but no no you [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► always know it's there [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► you'll always know underneath the [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► sticker where you wrote kitchen [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► implements there is indelible marker [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► right on the box that says bags right my [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► mom used the box to hold bags you're [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► like a random junk [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► Yeah right and I'm always know it's [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► there and it's just like get that box [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► out of my house because it's it's too [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► filed that's the filed with permanent [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► marker [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► I cannot abide it I got a lot of [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► feelings about boxes and bags before I [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► know I know you do [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► did you know what did you know I have [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► the have the sort of hemp shopping bag [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► what are those called the shopping bags [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► yeah okay the hemp shopping bags i have [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► one of those from every South by [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► Southwest never attended because they [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► were swag bags and I use them as my like [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► hippie go to the grocery store bags but [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► you know I start to feel like some of [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► those early you know the South by [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► Southwest 1999 I don't want to use that [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► anymore at the death trader joes I want [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► to keep that somewhere but it's not like [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► you're gonna frame it [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► yeah what do you do you have that then [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► you have to have a box where you keep [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► your special bags well i would i would [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► put those in the superclass of what i [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► call floppy bags really nice thing about [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► flat bags you can put a bunch of fucking [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► bags in another bag that's true [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► what kind of a meta back so I do that a [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► lot so when we get a lot of bags of one [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► kind again you know it [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► let's call it metal storage metal [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► storage so you got stuff you a story [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► that's what I nest my boxes floppy bags [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► i try to have them in something I don't [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► want them up I'm not a monster but I [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► like fold them in some kind of a [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► sensible way you know you should always [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► be able to see which bags which you [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► should be able to know like if I grab [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► this much i'm getting three of these it [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► should be should be sensible [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► that's not like a candy dish yeah I it [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► makes me feel so much better to know [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► that someone else shares this particular [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► sort of this particular wisdom man and I [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► you know it's just it's nice it's nice [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► to know that it's there [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► you know what though I think also this [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► but this might be the proof that I'm [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► crazy but I think it also leaves this [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► bigger thing of mine which is about a [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► certain kind of preparation and i just [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► talked about travel here but like I'm [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► talking about thinking through what's [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► gonna happen right [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► you always bring a jacket do you have to [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► go anywhere else do you have to pick [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► anything up along the way what will you [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► have to do what's your incumbrance going [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► to be at this point in the campaign is [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► we got to think about all that stuff and [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► is honestly I think I'm the only one [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► thinking about that this is why I'm this [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► is why I don't like high heels [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► yeah somebody set of the day high heels [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► and I was like I don't know [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► no high heels find another way because [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► what if we have to climb offense [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► yep and you don't you don't you never [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► you never go to a fancy ball thinking [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► later on tonight we're gonna have to [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► climb offense but you know go to fancy [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► balls something happened something else [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► happens suddenly you're being chased up [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► an alibi Rottweilers yeah what are you [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► gonna do all your high heels clack clack [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► clack clack too bad your Rottweiler food [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► they the area if they are tactical gear [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► it it's the wrong kind of tactic going [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► to get chased by a fucking Rottweilers [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► right that's right Robbie think it'd be [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► nice to have a little pointy though [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► forget your feet into the fence [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► let's let's go it's called this chased [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► chased by Rottweilers across a [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► drawbridge haha man yeah you're doing [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► you're doing some mental calculus [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► yeah good you know the Rottweilers are [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► not going to be happy on the drawbridge [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► eat but your they are not going to have [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► to go all the way across you know the [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► Rottweilers are wearing high heels and [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► they're not going to go across the [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► drawbridge because you and your high [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► heels are going to be like one foot into [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► the drawbridge and stuck [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► God and you know a lot of drawbridges [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► have a grating well that's what I'm [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► talking about [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► yeah that was grading you're not going [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► to get your training you're not gonna [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► get across there in a fucking said hi [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► you and I want to share when I walked [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► out of the house today it's cold here in [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► Seattle that right the temperature has [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► plunged and I'm am walking on the house [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► i'm headed to my meeting with Merlin [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► Mann at my office on Seattle boulevard [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► yep 1 2 3 4 5 & and I'm not that has [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► three office 322 in case you're keeping [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► track think it's 33 2332 um which one [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► which one is that I don't want to [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► confuse people you have 332 sorry [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► walking on the house I look at my basket [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► of hats and I feel like it's a little [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► early in the season even though it's [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► cold little early in the season to bust [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► out of ski hat and I'd cycled through a [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► lot of my like medium temperature hats [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► and I just roof [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► I just reflexively I was feeling bold or [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► something i reached over to my display [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► let's call it a Christmas tree of [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► vintage hats men's hats Tom Waits hats [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► or and these are hats that I've [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► collected over time but I very seldom [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► wear because I just don't see myself as [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► a guy who goes out into the world in a [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► Tom Waits tab [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► yeah this is the tension i love to I [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► love them I love to have them they're [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► beautiful things but I just can't I just [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► can't see myself as like walking around [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► in up in like a funky old hat very much [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► I mean I've done it I've done in a [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► certain amount but it's just it's a [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► bridge too far you I feel like you've [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► described as well in the past with a [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► couple different threads in the past [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► one of them is that every day when you [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► get up there is a question of many [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► questions you ask yourself what is the [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► uniform of the day is a question that [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► you asked okay that's one part that's [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► 130 that is terrific question to ask on [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► a lot of levels but then if i may say [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► I think then the other question the [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► answer you're waiting for is witch hat [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► will speak to me and tell me what the [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► uniform of the day is and if they don't [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► speak it's like it's like oh no Thomas [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► Church just as long as it takes you just [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► wait till somebody at the spirit moves [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► them maybe somebody that has not gonna [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► talk [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► that's absolutely right like for [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► instance if you are wearing an overcoat [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► i'm not talking about a jacket talk [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► about an overcoat you can't wear a ski [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► hat the proportions are not right it's [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► just not right [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► make sure pinheaded you wear a ski hat [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► with a jacket but this morning so this [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► is and you're right you're absolutely [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► right looking back in my thought process [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► what's the uniform of the day I i put on [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► a sweater and then I was like I want to [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► go a little bit i'm going to go a little [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► bit higher than a jacket and I put on an [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► overcoat and the overcoat was the one [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► that picked the Hat right and I wasn't [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► aware of that i was walking around the [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► house in an overcoat and I went for my [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► basket of hats and the overcoat said hey [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► pal what the plucky doing and just [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► guided me over to the christmas tree of [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► fedoras the christmas tree of Stanton's [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► Stetsons stack I today feels like a [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► Homburg it's 43 degrees and rainy [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► homburg well so this is a wide brim [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► steps and prob [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► it's an imperial Stetson and it is and [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► and it was formerly owned by HK robins [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► and it was sold this is the wonderful [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► thing it was sold at the Bernie at the [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► Bernie cuts hat store at 310 union [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► street seattle so the Hat is original to [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► Seattle and Bernie nuts is still in [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► business here last haberdasher in [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► downtown but this hat is from 1930 Wow [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► and it's very very worn but but well [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► well one and it's it's a wide brim but [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► the brims turned up all the way around [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► right there it's not like down it's not [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► it's not a come up and see me sometime [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► sweetheart [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► Pat it's more like Jim Norton had it's [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► like hey yeah yeah that's that's that's [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► a good look but it's got a pretty broad [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► brim specially cut in the front right [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► yeah well all around the [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► rim is what two-and-a-half three inches [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► even yeah and it's it's like it's green [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► it's kind of khaki green and it has a [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► very wide ribbon around the brim that [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► was once pink and has now darkened to [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► like dusty rose and the whole hat is [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► dusty sort of dusty like the tom petty [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► video I don't come around here no more [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► well know the one where they ride their [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► motorcycles to the video game parlor in [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► the desert in a post-apocalyptic [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► landscape which one is that it's sort of [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► dusty like that like it's stylish but [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► understated well so I so I walk out of [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► the house I'm sorry I that would be you [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► got lucky you got lucky babe a great [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► video very you know very much ahead of [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► its time and so I walk out and i'm [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► wearing an overcoat and this and this [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► happen it's just like it's been crushed [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► and mushed over the years and it just [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► has so much character and I felt a [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► little bit like do I have this much [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► character [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► yep there's a lot of character here and [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► but you know I caught my reflection in a [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► piece of plate glass window is walking [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► along and I'm like I mean yeah I this is [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► good i go this way I'm a middle-aged guy [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► now I could start wearing that this kind [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► of hat [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► nobody would blink an eye uh-huh but [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► somewhere inside myself I would be like [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► wow this is pretty heavy this feels like [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► something I should if I was going to do [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► this now i should have been doing this [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► all along I don't know it's hard to [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► inhabit a hat but you want it you want [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► it you got it there with you now I got [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► here i'm looking at i'm so proud of it i [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► love the Hat is a thing is photos [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► beautiful do you think you did the right [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► thing I'm you know what I'm gonna walk [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► out of here after after we get done with [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► our program going to walk around the [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► town in this overcoat and hat i'm going [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► to see what happens [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► how long's the overcoat the overcoat [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► itself is a beautiful thing it's a [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► double-breasted overcoat first of all [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► it's also from the forties itself a [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► retired pins right it's a peak lapel [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► double-breasted herringbone [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► overcoat but it's blue a dark blue and [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► uh it's a dynamite overcoat the whole [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► the whole thing is unimpeachable [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► nobody's I mean the only looks i'm going [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► to get our low [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► hot front i'm inside this spacesuit and [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► I'm like do I look like a swing dancer [TS]

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00:52:29 ◼   ► tortured mattress terms and conditions [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► do apply our thanks to Casper for the [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► great night sleep and for supporting [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► Roderick on the line that's what I want [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► to look like not bound pattern and I'm [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► gonna have bad that and he's Jessica [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► Rabbit [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► no that's not what i want i want to look [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► like a fucking I want to look like a [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► detective lost in time [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► mm-hmm you know I want to look like [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► somebody that the years are irrelevant [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► to write some timeless timeless thank [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► you and and so I mean you know I don't [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► want to i want to get out there and and [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► feel like somebody in the Brian Setzer [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► video so so I don't know I you know the [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► jury's out right [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► you need to be comfortable in your own [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► herringbone I think we can all agree on [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► that at first for sure but at the same [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► time I you know I look at your selfies [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► and you're getting very stately you I [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► could totally see you in that particular [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► uniform of the day I don't think it's [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► weird it would be weird and creepy if [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► like a java programmers 20 dress like [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► that you're right you're right but I you [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► know you know you you do you you know [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► what's right for you [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► the thing is a java programmer in his [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► twenties would be buying all this stuff [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► on some kind of like Australian website [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► right it wouldn't be I mean I've had [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► this for Doran he gets a box-to-box [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► delivered once a month with a thing it [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► has [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► thing right I've had this four-door for [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► 25 years and I've worn it plenty of [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► times but not that many times frankly in [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► the 25 years i've owned it i probably [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► wanted 25 times it's not like it was [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► ever a regular part of my thing but I've [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► had it and I look at and i put it you [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► know what I do I put it on I wear around [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► the house and then when it's time to go [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► out of the door I I like I got stopped [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► at the door and I'm like mm maybe I [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► should there have been plenty of times [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► where I've worn it out the door and then [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► talk taking it off to get in my car and [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► throw it on the back seat of the car and [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► then it rolled around with me for a [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► couple of weeks and I never was like I [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► should I should wear the hat out out of [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► the car right uh-huh [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► anyway so here I am bold new world I but [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► somebody said to me the other day [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► whatever happened here's your your [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► hoodies used to wear hoodies all time [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► and now you're always dressed up like in [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► it in a tie my kind of that kind of [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► change gears a little bit and they and [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► they expressed they expressed the desire [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► to see some hoodies in the mix I was [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► like wow somebody out in the world wants [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► me to be a little casual sometimes and [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► and if one person says it then 10 people [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► are thinking it had a thing about you [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► it seems to me is that is the level of [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► thought and a level of commitment where [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► it isn't like you just put on the same [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► sweat pants you wore yesterday and now [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► that's casual wear it seems to me that [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► even when you're choosing sportswear or [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► if you're going to be yachting or [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► pretending the yacht whatever it is that [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► you're going to do you you put a lot of [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► care into that and deciding what casual [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► look you'll be going for [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► well you select from different pieces [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► and parts you say what is the uniform of [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► the day you asked aloud and then and [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► then the answer comes to what somebody [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► was teasing me up in a separate [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► conversation some other number of days [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► ago where they said how long did it take [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► you to put that outfit together and one [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► of the other keys to me is that you [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► should never spend more than five [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► minutes thinking about your own song [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► don't you know any precious no se wake [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► up in the morning you say what's the [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► uniform of the day and then you [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► immediately move toward it and you're [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► putting it you're you're compiling your [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► composing rather composing your [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► composing that uniform of the day [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► I as you also make your way through your [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► house making some microwave coffee [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► it's like a painting made of garments [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► right you're snacking on something and [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► you're like what's the what's the [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► you-know-what what goes over the shirts [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► what goes what is the time but your butt [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► five minutes is all you should put into [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► that pop ow and then you walk out the [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► door and you're committed to you [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► committed to what you've done you put [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► together a thing it's very impression [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► mystic and then you get you enjoying the [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► day and today at just I went that extra [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► something happened the coat pick the hat [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► and then I was on to a different thing I [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► was I'm maybe this is the with some kind [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► of turn [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► yeah i think i think it's i think it's a [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► great way to go i think having that I [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► think confidence is a nice thing to have [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► confidence in knowing that even if it's [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► not perfect you can live with your [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► decisions in a way that you're not [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► constantly looking back that to me is a [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► form of confidence doesn't mean that [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► you're always right [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► it means that you have a level of [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► commitment to say this is the thing that [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► I'm going to do it may not be perfect [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► but i'm not going to second-guess myself [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► all day can't second-guess yourself a [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► guy in a hatchet not be second-guessing [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► is absolutely not people will see that [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► you'll see that a mile away that God [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► doesn't that guy hasn't heard that he [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► doesn't think he has this quality looked [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► up I remember reading some college in [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► this is Tom one of the Tom Wolfe essays [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► his accent arrived mysteriously one day [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► in a box from London intrigued he [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► slapped into his mouth like a set of [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► teeth [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► it seemed right and that's how i feel [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► when i wear a hat that's nice what [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► Garnett and think about an overcoat to [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► is you can wear an overcoat in a in a [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► John bender way your you got an overcoat [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► fingerless gloves contender on bender [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► from from from the breakfast club [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► Oh bender sure bender yeah right you got [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► an overcoat on [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► yeah but you weren't fingerless gloves [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► and a hoodie so that's a whole different [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► we're going different directions are [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► going to put a fedora on with that it's [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► almost like a druid or got not gods but [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► i do it [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► I mean he's got the motorcycle boots [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► he's got the yeah he's he's he's in a [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► that's a different kind of overcooked [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► and then frankly a very [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► eighties overcoat uh-huh because that [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► was the same overcoat I've got here it [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► was from the forties or fifties but it [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► was being really appropriate in the [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► eighties as a like punk rock item [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► remember when you walk into a good i [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► hate to bring this up again but you [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► remember that do you remember you can [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► walk into a goodwill and as a question [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► of which overcoat that fit you and from [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► the fifties you're going to spend four [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► to six dollars on [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► oh do I remember maybe ten bucks but I [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► mean either i just remember I didn't [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► have a lot of dough at the time that I [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► was going to three stores which is a [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► nice combination but i would go in there [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► and I buy a lot of shirts that I wear [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► punk rock t-shirt and then some kind of [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► a slightly ironic vintage shirt over it [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► and this is me in 1986 and i rarely paid [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► more than two dollars for sure but I [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► think what's happening to me now at age [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► 47 which let that reverberate for a [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► minute and 10 th i'll be in 10 days I'll [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► be 49 49 and just listen to that coo 47 [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► powerbomb what is that [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► 47 49 what kind of ages are these those [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► are ages approximating 50 which is some [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► kind of thing I never thought I would [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► see like Archie Bunker aged right we're [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► getting there at any other time in [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► history we would be fully vested as men [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► trending two old men any other age [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► revealed that right we would be sitting [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► we would be sitting on a on a ragged [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► couch with one hand down the front of [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► our pants and upset a cigar and we be [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► yelling at somebody [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► yeah but here we are not doing that [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► anyway I think what's happening to me is [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► that all through the eighties I was [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► buying those those john f kennedy suits [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► at thrift stores [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► at thrift stores [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► for two dollars and then I don't know [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► what to do with them and put them in the [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► closet and because I never throw [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► anything away [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► I got to be 47 years old I opened opened [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► this like old cedar chest and I had 25 [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► Kennedy suits in there and I things I [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► had all these fedoras that I've been [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► collecting at thrift stores my whole [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► life collecting them as just like oh [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► that's a beautiful old thing it's only [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► two dollars i'll buy it and then but i'm [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► actually walking around town in hoodies [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► so i put in a cedar chest and then when [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► i move i carry the cedar chest from [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► place to place and it's like a [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► sarcophagus for filled with the filled [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► with the like garment history of the [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► united states i got to be in my mid [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► forties and I was like I i can still [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► wear all these clothes that i bought in [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► high school and the same size [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► yeah and so I started wearing them I you [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► know I started wearing this stuff that [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► that I'd that I've been slapping and and [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► so I think part of the fun of it is that [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► these garments even though they're very [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► old and predated me they've also been [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► with me for years [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► they're double old their double old [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► that's right I've been trying these [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► things on and walking around my own [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► house and going like isn't this a cool [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► thing and then taking it off and putting [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► on a hoodie and walking out of the house [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► and I finally was like I'm just gonna [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► walk out of the house in these things [TS]